Microfossils of the Middle MississippianSalem Limestone: Midwest U.S.A.* Appendix 1
by Alan Goldstein *Originally published in the Digest of the Mid America Paleontological Society (MAPS) in 1999, edited 2008.
Appendix 1: Salem Limestone general faunal list Compiled by the author from many sources. Those with an asterisk (*) have been noted as microfossils. ss = also reported from the Somerset Shale member Foraminifera (for all except G. baileyi, see Willman, et al 1975 p. 141) Calcisphaera sp. Endothyra sp. Eoendothyranopsis spiroides *Globoendothyra baileyi (Hall) Septabrunsiina sp. Tournayella sp.
Cnideria (Corals) Amplexus blairi Miller Amplexus coralloides Sowerby ?Aulopora gigas Rominger Bordenia zaphrentiformis Greene Cladochonus agglomerata (Grabau) Cladochonus beecheri (Grabau) - ss Cyathaxonia venusta Greene Cystelasma lanesvillense Miller Cystelasma rugosum Ulrich Cystelasma septatum Greene Cystelasma tabulata Cumings & Beede Enallophyllum grabaui Greene Hapsiphyllum cassedayi (Milne-Edwards & Haime) - ss Michelinia indianensis Cumings & Beede Palaeacis cuniformis Milne-Edwards & Haime - ss ?Palaeacis obtusus Meek & Worthen Protopora cystoides (Grabau) Syringopora monroense Cumings & Beede - ss Triplophyllites sp. - ss Zaphrentis compressa Milne-edwards & Haime Zaphrentis clinatus Greene
Conularids Paraconularia missouriensis Swallow = Conularia greenei Miller & Gurley Paraconularia sublata Hall
Porifera Belemnospongia parmula Rigby, Keyes & Horowitz - ss Hapliston armstrongi Young & Young - ss *Misc. sponge spicules
Echinodermata Blastozoa Diploblastus sp. - ss Metablastus bipyramidatus (Hall) - ss Metablastus wachsmuthi (Gurley) - ss Metablastus wortheni (Hall) *Pentremites conoideus Hall - ss var. amplus Rowley var. perlongus Rowley Tricoelocrinus meekianus Etheridge & Carpenter - ss Tricoelocrinus woodmani Meek & Worthen
Crinozoa Actinocrinites gibsoni? Miller & Gurley - ss Barycrinus astericus Miller & Gurley - ss Barycrinus punctatus Feldman - ss Batocrinus calyculus Hall - ss Batocrinus crassitestus Rowley Batocrinus davisi Rowley var. lanesvillensis Rowley var. sculptus Rowley Batocrinus isodactylus Casseday- ss Batocrinus irregularis Casseday- ss Batocrinus magnirostris Rowley- ss Batocrinus salemensis Miller & Gurley Batocrinus somersetensis Feldman - ss Batocrinus spergenensis Miller- ss Camptocrinus sp.- ss Cyathocrinites multibrachiatus (Lyon & Casseday)- ss Cyathocrinites parvibrachiatus (Hall)- ss Dichocrinus ficus? Lyon & Casseday- ss *Dichocrinus simplex Shumard- ss Dizygocrinus calvus Feldman- ss Dizygocrinus decoris Miller- ss Dizygocrinus euconus Meek & Worthen? Dizygocrinus whitei Wachsmuth & Springer- ss Dizygocrinus unionensis Worthen Eretmocrinus sp.- ss Forbesiocrinus multibrachiatus Lyon & Casseday- ss *Hyrtanocrinus ornatus (Wachsmuth & Springer)- ss = Dichocrinus blatchleyi Beede Icthyocrinus clarkensis Miller & Gurley Platycrinites bonoensis (White)- ss Platycrinites boonesvillensis (Miller) *Platycrinitid columnals Poteriocrinites coryphaeus Miller *Strimplecrinus coxanus (Worthen)- ss = Dichocrinus oblongus Wachsmuth & Springer and Dichocrinus striatus Shumard *Synbathocrinus swallovi Hall- ss Talarocrinus cf. T. trijugus Miller & Gurley
Echinozoa (Echinoids & Holothuroids) *Archaeocidaris norwoodi Hall- ss *Misc. holothuroid sclerites? Oligoporus blairi Miller & Gurley- ss
Vermes (Worms) *Cornulites blatchleyi Beede *Palaeoconchus annulatus (Hall) *Palaeoconchus imbricatus (Ulrich) *Palaeoconchus nodulosus (Hall)
Bryozoans (fragments of many listed below can be found as microfossils) Batostomella sp. Cystodictya lineata Ulrich- ss Cystodictya ocellata Ulrich Cystodictya pustulosa Ulrich Dichotrypa flabellum (Rominger) Fenestella compressa var. elongatum Cumings- ss Fenestella exigua Ulrich Fenestella multispinosua Ulrich Fenestella rudis Ulrich Fenestella serratula Ulrich Fenestella serratula var. quadata Cumings Fenestella tenax Ulrich Fenestella tenax var. multinodosa Cumings Fenestella tenuissima Cumings Fenestralia compacta Ulrich Fenestralia sancti-ludovici Prout Fistulipora spergenensis Rominger- ss Glyptopora michelinia (Prout)- ss Hemitrypa beedei Cumings- ss Hemitrypa hemitrypa Prout Hemitrypa nodulosa Ulrich Hemitrypa plumosa (Prout) Hemitrypa proutana Ulrich- ss Hemitrypa proutana var. nododorsalis Cumings Lioclema sp. Meekopora? sp. Palechara tuberculata (Prout) Pinnatopora sp. Polypora biseriata Ulrich- ss Polypora internodata Cumings Polypora maccoyana Ulrich Polypora simulatrix Ulrich Polypora spininodata Ulrich Polypora striata Cumings Ptilopora valida Ulrich Rhombopora bedfordensis Cumings Stenopora rudis Ulrich Worthenopora spatulata (Prout)- ss Worthenopora spinosa Ulrich
Brachiopods *Allorhynchus macra (Hall) = Rhynchonella ricinula Hall *Anthracospirifer? bifurcatus (Hall) Antiquatonia gallatinensis (Girty) *Athyris densa Hall = Centronella? crassicardinalis Whitfield *Beecheria formosa (Hall) *Beecheria crawfordsvillensis (Gurley) = B. sinuatum (Weller) Brachythyris suborbicularis (Hall) *Camarophoria wortheni (Hall) *Cleiothyridina hirsuta (Hall) Cleiothyridina parvirostrus (Meek & Worthen) *Composita trinuclea (Hall) *Cranaena sulcata? Weller *Dielasma arkansum Weller *Dielasma gorbyi (Miller) Echinoconchus alternatus (Norwood & Pratten) Echinoconchus biseriatus (Hall) *Eumetria verneuliana (Hall) *Girtyella turgidum (Hall) Imbrexia forbesi (Norwood & Pratten) ?Linoproductus altonensis (Norwood & Pratten) Marginata burlingtonensis (Hall) Orthotetes aff. O. kaskaskiensis (McChesney) Ovatia ovata (Hall) *Perditocardia dubia (Hall) Productus keokuk Hall *Pugnax grosvenori (Hall) *Pugnax? quadrirostrus Beede *Pugnax wortheni (Hall) *Schuchertella minuta (Cumings) *Scoloconchus indianensis (Hall) Setigerites setigerus (Hall) Skelidorygma subcardiiformis (Hall) Spirifer horizontalis Rowley Spirifer washingtonensis Weller *Spiriferella neglecta (Hall) *Spiriferina norwoodi (Hall) Tegulocera tenuicostata (Hall) Tetracamera arctirostrata (Swallow) Tetracamera subcuneata (Hall) = Camarophoria subcuneata Torynifer pseudolineata (Hall) Torynifer salemensis (Hall) Torynifer setigera (Hall) Warsawia lateralis (Hall) Warsawia lateralis var. delicatus (Rowley)
Molluca Gastropoda (almost all gastropods are found as microfossils) Acmaea? sp. Anomphalus rotuliformis Cumings Bellerphon gibsoni White- ss Bellerphon sublaevis Hall Bembexia elegantula (Hall) Bucanopsis textilis (Hall) Bulimorpha bulimiformis (Hall) Bulimorpha canaliculata (Hall) Bulimorpha elongata (Hall) Cyclonema leavenworthenana (Hall) Cyclonema subangulatum (Hall) Eutrochus concavus (Hall) Euconospira concula (Hall)- ss Holopea proutana Hall Lepetopsis levitti White Loxonema yandellana Hall Macrocheilus littonanus (Hall) Macrocheilus stinesvillensis Cumings Murchisonia insculpta Hall Murchisonia terebriformis Hall Murchisonia vincta (Hall) Platyceras (Orthonychia) acutirostris (Hall)- ss Platyceras circularis Rowley "Pleurotomaria" humilis Hall "Pleurotomaria" meekana Hall "Pleurotomaria" nodulostriata Hall "Pleurotomaria" piasaensis Hall "Pleurotomaria" subglobosa Hall "Pleurotomaria" swallovana Hall "Pleurotomaria" trilineata Hall "Pleurotomaria" wortheni Hall Polytremaria? solitaria Cumings Soleniscus glaber Cumings Solenospira attentuata (Hall) Solenospira turritella (Hall) Solenospira vermicula (Hall) Straparollus planispira (Hall) Straparollus quadrivolvis (Hall) Straparollus spergenensis (Hall) Straparollus spergenensis var. planorbiformis (Hall) Strophostylus carleyana (Hall) Subulites harrodsburgensis Cumings
Polyplacopora (Chitons) *Pterochiton exlevatus Kues *Pterochiton parvus (Stevens)
Rostroconchia Conocardium carinatum Hall Conocardium catastomum Hall Conocardium cuneatatum Hall Conocardium equliaterale Hall Conocardium meekanum Hall Conocardium perattenanum Hall
Pelecypoda = Bivalvia (most can be found as microfossils) Allorisma maxvillense? Whitfield (=Wilkingia?) Aviculopecten sp. Cypricardella subelliptica? Hall Cypricardinia indianensis Hall- ss Deltopectin sp. Edmondia? subplana (Hall) Goniophoria? plicata (Hall) Leptodesma spergenensis Whitfield Macrodon sp.? Microdon ellipticus (Whitfield) Microdon oblonga (Hall) = M. nucleatus (Hall) Microdon subelliptica (Hall) Myalina sp.- ss Nuclea shumardana Hall Nuculana nasuta Hall Pteronites spergenensis Whitfield Worthenia? sp.
Cephalopoda (not found as microfossils) "Nautilus" clarkanus Hall "Orthoceras" epigrus Hall "Orthoceras" sp. Temnocheilus coxanus Meek & Worthen
Trilobita (not found as microfossils) Griffithides bufo Meek & Worthen - ss
Ostracoda (all microfossils) Acratia deloi Geis Amphissites altanodosus Geis Amphissites centronotoides Geis Amphissites mimicus Geis Amphissites nodosulcatus Geis Amphissites planoventralis Geis Amphissites reticulatus Geis Amphissites rotundus Geis Amphissites vanniae Geis Bairdia compacta Geis Bairdia compressa Geis Bairdia depressa Geis Bairdia permagna Geis Bairdia salemensis Geis Bairdia subaequalis Geis Bythocypris lydeae Geis Bythocypris marginifera Geis Bythocypris norrisensis Geis Cavellina glandella (Whitfield) Cythere demissa Brady Cythere flos-cardui Brady Cytherella cribrosa Geis Cytherella emaciata Geis Cytherella savagei Geis Cytherella spergenensis Geis Cytherella venusta Brady Cytherura clavata Brady Cytherura curvistriata Brady Glyptopleura carinata Geis Glyptopleura elegantis Geis Glyptopleura karli Geis Glyptopleura parvacostata Geis Glyptopleura perbella Geis Healdia variolosa Geis Jonesina oblonga Geis Jonesina sinuodorsata Geis Kellettella incarinata Geis Kirbya dorsoconvexa Geis Kirbya rothi Geis Kirbya welleri Geis Loxoconcha australis Brady Microcheilus distortus Geis Microcheilus spinosus Geis Oliganisus punctatus Geis Oliganisus sulcatus Geis Paraparchites carbonaria (Hall) Paraparchites subcircularis Geis Pontocypris billingsella Geis Pontocypris coryelli Geis Sansabella inflata Geis Savagella lindahli (Ulrich) Savagella rhomboidalis (Girty) Xestoleberis faveolata Brady
Conodonta (all microfossils) Hibbardella abnormis Hibbardella ortha Hindeoella spp. Ligonodina spp. Ligonodina levis Ligonodina magnilaterina Rhodes, Austin & Druce Magnilaterella spp. Neoprioniodus spp. Neoprioniodus tulensis Neoprioniodus cf. varians Ozarkodina spp. Synprioniodina laxilabrum Taphrognathus spp. Taphrognathus varians Branson & Mehl
Ichnofossils (Trace Fossils)
Borings (ss) Chondrites (ss) Helmenthoida (ss)
Vertebrata - Pisces (Mostly Shark teeth)
Antliodus arcuatus Newberry & Worthen Antliodus minutus Newberry & Worthen Archaeobatis gigas Newberry & Worthen Chromatus angustus Newberry Chromatus inconstans St. John & Newberry Chromatus lanesvillensis Branson Chromatus obliquus Newberry Chromatus parallelus St. John & Worthen Chromatus pusillus Newberry & Worthen Chromatus selliformis Newberry Cladodus ferox Newberry & Worthen Cladodus indianensis Branson Cladodus lamnoides Newberry & Worthen Cladodus spinosus Newberry & Worthen Copodus marginatus Newberry Ctenacanthus bellus Branson Ctenacanthus pellensis? St. John & Worthen Deltodopsis? bialveatus St. John & Worthen Deltodus cinctus Newberry Deltodus spatulatus Newberry & Worthen Deltodus trilobus St. John & Worthen Desmiodus salemensis Branson Helodus coniculus Newberry & Worthen Helodus elegantulus Branson Helodus incisus Eastman Helodus laevis Newberry Helodus? minutus Branson Helodus ornatus Branson Helodus robustus Branson Lisgodus affinis Newberry Orodus colletti Newberry Orodus neglectus? St. John & Worthen Orodus simplex Branson Petalodus linguifer Newberry & Worthen Polyrhizodus littoni Newberry & Worthen Psammodus glyptus St. John & Worthen Psephodus latus? St. John & Worthen Pseudodus regularis St. John & Worthen Sandalodus convolutus Branson Sandalodus laevissimus Newberry & Worthen Sandalodus minor Newberry & Worthen Sandalodus occidentalis (Leidy) Sandalodus porcatus Branson Thrinacodus bicornus Newberry
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